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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
by Dervla Murphy

Braving hunger, heat exhaustion, unbearable terrain and cultures largely untouched by civilization, Dervla Murphy chronicles her determined trip through nine countries, through snow and ice in the mountains and miles of barren land in the scorching desert.

With indomitable spirit and her special brand of Irish understatement and wit Murphy revels in the unpredictability of her journey and the challenging grandeur of her surroundings. Full Tilt is a highly individual account by a celebrated travel writer based on the daily diary Murphy kept while riding through Yugoslavia, Persia, Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and into India. Murphy's charm and gracious sensitivity as a writer and a traveler reveals not only civilizations of exotic people and places but the wonder of a woman alone on an extraordinary adventure.

"This vivid journal would have delighted Cervantes with its almost incredible surprises."
--The New Yorker

ZT2482    Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle            $16.95

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